Pain Management in Johns Creek, GA

Summit Spine & Joint Centers’ Johns Creek office is on Peachtree Parkway in Suite 120. Its mailing address is Norcross, so if you are looking it up by address, that is the city you will see. The office serves north Fulton and Gwinnett County patients from Johns Creek, Norcross, Peachtree Corners, Duluth and Suwanee, including the Technology Park, Spalding Corners and Riverfield areas.

Dr. Oluwasegun Lijofi sees patients here. He completed a family medicine residency and then a fellowship in interventional pain medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, and he is board certified in family medicine. His approach is multimodal: procedures such as nerve blocks and epidural injections sit alongside medication management and conservative care, rather than replacing them. Dr. Lijofi also sees patients at other Summit Spine offices in the north metro area, including Dawsonville.

Pain that spreads into an arm or a leg usually points to an irritated nerve root, and several of the treatments below are built to reach one specific nerve. The Johns Creek office is part of a network of clinics across Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee and Florida, and it uses the same non-surgical treatment approach as every other Summit Spine location.

Conditions

Patients at the Johns Creek office are commonly treated for:

• Spinal Stenosis: a tightening of the space around the spinal cord and nerves, common in adults over 50.
• Lumbar Radiculopathy (Sciatica): compression of a lower-back nerve root, the most common cause of sciatica.
• Herniated Disc: soft disc material pushing out through a tear and irritating a spinal nerve root.
• Degenerative Disc Disease: thinning of the cushioning discs between the vertebrae, a common source of neck and low back pain.
• Facet Joint Pain: an aching pain from the joints at the back of the spine, often worse when leaning backward.
• Post-Laminectomy Syndrome (Failed Back Syndrome): persistent pain after a laminectomy or other back surgery that didn’t bring the expected relief.
• Back Pain: ongoing pain in the lower or mid back, including pain that has lasted more than a few months.
• Fibromyalgia: a chronic condition that causes pain in many areas of the body at once.
• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS): a chronic nerve condition that causes severe pain, swelling and skin sensitivity in an arm or leg.

Treatments

All 19 of the following non-surgical treatments are available to Johns Creek patients:

• Back Pain Treatment: an individualized plan that may combine injections, nerve treatments and conservative care.
• Celiac Plexus Block: an injection that blocks pain signals coming from the abdominal organs.
• Cervical Epidural Steroid Injection: steroid medication delivered near irritated nerves in the neck.
• Cervical Facet Radiofrequency Neurotomy: a longer-lasting option for neck joint pain that responded well to a diagnostic block.
• Discography: an imaging-guided test used to confirm a painful disc before treatment is planned.
• Facet Joint Injections: an injection that can both relieve facet joint pain and confirm where it starts.
• Genicular Radiofrequency Ablation: a nonsurgical option for ongoing knee pain, often from arthritis.
• Intrathecal Pump Implant: for severe chronic pain, delivers small, precise doses of medication near the spinal cord.
• Lumbar Epidural Steroid Injection: steroid medication placed in the epidural space to calm irritated lower-back nerves.
• Lumbar Radiofrequency Neurotomy: a radiofrequency treatment for lower-back joint pain, typically used after a positive medial branch block.
• Lumbar Sympathetic Block: blocks the sympathetic nerves that can drive burning pain in the legs and feet.
• Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection: a targeted epidural approach that reaches one specific nerve where it exits the spine.
• Medial Branch Block: a short-acting numbing injection that shows whether radiofrequency treatment is a good fit.
• MILD: removes a small amount of thickened ligament through a tiny incision to relieve stenosis pressure.
• Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA): a longer-lasting nerve treatment for chronic joint and spine pain.
• Rhizotomy: a procedure that quiets specific pain-carrying nerves.
• Sacroiliac Joint Steroid Injection: relieves low back and buttock pain that comes from the sacroiliac joint.
• Stellate Ganglion Block: a nerve block that can ease CRPS and other nerve pain in the upper body.
• Vertiflex Superion: a minimally invasive implant that keeps a narrowed section of the lumbar spine open.

Providers

Johns Creek patients are currently seen by:

• Dr. Oluwasegun Lijofi: an MD board certified in family medicine and fellowship-trained in interventional pain medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, who also sees patients at Summit Spine’s Dawsonville office.

His full bio is linked above.

We accept all major commercial insurance carriers and Medicare. If you don’t see your plan listed, please contact our office at (844) 972-7752. The managed care health insurance market changes rapidly, and specific coverage questions should be discussed directly with your insurance company or our knowledgeable staff.